244. Movies, Mosses, and Stories to Change The World
Outrage + Optimism
Persephonica
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week, Tom and Christiana are in Seattle recording in the Amazon studio where they are joined by special guest Kara Hurst, Chief Sustainability Officer at Amazon. Together they bring you an eclectic mix of topics of outrage and optimism ranging from the introduction of the Bechdel test for climate change, storytelling with the national geographic and mosses!
The nature sounds that close the podcast come from One Square Inch located in the Hoh Rain Forest at Olympic National Park. Thanks goes to Quiet Parks International for allowing us to use the audio of this oasis of calm and quiet. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and optimismism. I'm Tom Rifik Carnock. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm Christina Figuera. |
| 0:17.1 | Today we're coming to you from a studio in Seattle in person with a very special guest. |
| 0:21.6 | A professional studio with a very special guest. A professional studio with a very special guest |
| 0:25.0 | talking about what makes us outrage and optimistic. |
| 0:27.0 | Thanks for being here. Oh, So Christina this is big for us. We are actually, it feels... |
| 0:49.2 | How did we get to be in a real recording studio? Does it feel like we've grown up? |
| 0:54.2 | Yeah, but the problem is this is only today |
| 0:57.2 | we don't get to keep the studio |
| 0:59.2 | and we don't get to come back here next week. |
| 1:01.4 | You know what, we did this once before, |
| 1:03.4 | and actually that's where Clay came from. |
| 1:05.8 | So I don't know if listeners know this, |
| 1:07.4 | but once before we recorded a podcast |
| 1:09.6 | in a studio in Detroit, |
| 1:11.1 | and Clay Carnell was the studio at the very beginning exactly anyway and since then we haven't had anything like this we've just done it remotely but today is very special so we're in. We've been here all week having amazing meetings talking |
| 1:24.7 | about much of the work we're doing that we'll get into it. But we are not alone and the person |
| 1:28.8 | we're joined with is not Paul Dickinson. So now we have a very special guest and I'm going to let you |
| 1:34.9 | introduce her Christina but I'm going to tell you something first that you |
| 1:38.7 | said about this woman that we're sitting next to when she was named in time as one of the 100 most influential |
| 1:45.3 | leaders in climate, and you said, her willingness to stand up and show the way is what makes |
| 1:51.1 | her exceptional, and I for one am glad and grateful to have |
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